The Notts & Derby Off-Road club will host the HPI Challenge & Bash Party on Saturday, 2nd of August. Meant to be a fun and laid-back “run what you brung” meeting for HPI vehicle owners, the race will see Baja, Buggy, Truggy, 2WD Truck, Monster Truck and WR8 racing. The rules are simply and all needed information can be found in HPI’s event flyer that you can download here (PDF file).
The 2nd round of the South German 1/8th off-road regionals, as part of the qualification towards the nationals later this Summer, was run at the MSC Osterhofen in Bavaria. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class SWorkz’ Stefan Scheuenplug took the win in the final while Serpent’s young Micha Widmeier grabbed the runner-up spot. Kyosho driver Tobias Weinmann completed the podium in 3rd position.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The 5th round of the 2014 JBRL Electric Series took place at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale on June 14th. As usual, attendance was good and the level of competition was very high. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Tekno’s Rudy Rico started from 2nd into the final and managed to grab the win in front of Ryan Dunford (TLR) and Scott Wolf (Mugen). In the Pro4 Short Course class Rudy put his Tekno truck on top of the time sheets after qualifying and he would also bring home the win in the final in front of the TLR duo of Ryan Dunford (TLR) and David Jenson (TLR).
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This weekend was round 2 of the Spanish National Series, held at the CARBI track in Bilbao, home of the 2009 European Championships. The club have changed a few features of the track since the previous years event, but it was still a very challenging and high grip circuit. Saturday would see a day of practice, with 2 controlled rounds late in the day to seed the heats for the following day. With just 2WD running, Sunday would have 5 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals for all. The weather report threatened for rain on Sunday afternoon, but it never came, the sun and dry weather staying for the whole weekend.
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The Italian Electric Touring Car nationals was held last weekend at the RME Lamberto Collari circuit in Cassino. The Modified class was won by Yokomo driver Nicola Marrone who left Alessandro Brunelli (Xray) and Alessio Menicucci (Xray) behind.
Modified Touring Car top 3 result:
1. Nicola Marrone – Yokomo/EZ Power/EZ Power
2. Alessandro Brunelli – Xray/EZ Power/EZ Power
3. Alessio Menicucci – Xray/Lipotech/EZ Power
Source: EZ Power [ezpower.it]
Addiction RC in Ogden, UT, hosted of the 4th round of the Short Course Showdown on a fairly new layout with the track being watered all weekend, making for consistent laptimes. Qualifying was based on qual points with your best 2 out of 4 rounds being used to seat you in the mains. All the A mains were seated with 8 cars and 2 bumps from the B main. After 4 full rounds of qualifying, Dustin Evans sat on TQ in 2WD Mod Short Course and 4WD Mod Buggy while Frank Root grabbed the TQ in 4WD Mod Short Course and Dave Duncan TQ’d in 2WD Stock Short Course.
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The 2nd round of the Stockholm Cup took place on the high speed track of the Botkyrka MK. In qualifying Frederick Cederberg took the TQ but come the final he made a big mistake on the opening lap allowing runner-up Rickard Olsson to pass into the lead. Rickard then was in control of things and finished nearly a lap ahead of 2nd placed Sebastian Johansson. Michael Kronoström finished 3rd to complete the podium.
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The 3rd round of the Offroad Cup was held in Kolin using a new track layout and surface that many drivers considered the best they ever drove on. In the 1/8th nitro and 1/10th 4WD electric classes it was David Kukla who took the overall TQ’s for the finals. The 1/8th finals where run in an electric style format with three 12 minute legs that David easily won in front of Jiri Benes and Jiri Dvorak. David then also went on to win the 4WD buggy class in front of Martin Korinek and Kaja Novotny.
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